Joy to the World Lyrics

Joy to the World Lyrics

“Joy to the World” is one of the most popular Christmas carols which was the most published Christmas hymn in North America in late 20th century. This hymn had been written by English writer Isaac Watts. The hymn “Joy to the World” was being first published on 1719 in Watts’ collection “The Psalms of David”. The words of this hymn are being based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. Lowell Mason, who was a well-known composer and arranger, had composed the tunes of the hymn “Joy to the World” from an 1848 edition written by Lowell Mason for the National Psalmist. 

Genre: Christmas carol 

Written: 1719 

Text: Isaac Watts 

Melody: "Antioch" by George Frideric Hande which was arranged by Lowell Mason 

Joy to the World Lyrics 

Joy to the world! 

The Lord is come; 

Let earth receive her King; 

Let every heart 

Prepare him room, 

And heaven 

And nature sing, 

And heaven 

And nature sing, 

And heaven, and heaven 

And nature sing. 

  

Joy to the world! 

The Savior reigns; 

Let men their songs employ; 

While fields and floods, 

Rocks, hills, and plains 

Repeat the sounding joy, 

Repeat the sounding joy, 

Repeat, 

Repeat the sounding joy. 

  

No more 

Let sins and sorrows grow, 

Nor thorns infest the ground; 

He comes to make 

His blessings flow 

Far as the curse is found, 

Far as the curse is found, 

Far as, far as, 

The curse is found. 

  

He rules the world 

With truth and grace, 

And makes the nations prove 

The glories of 

His righteousness, 

And wonders of His love, 

And wonders of His love, 

And wonders, wonders, 

Of His love.